‘Cebuanos always go home for lunch’–not true anymore
CEBU’S dining landscape has changed tremendously, and we, like most food lovers nowadays, couldn’t be more pleased.
CEBU’S dining landscape has changed tremendously, and we, like most food lovers nowadays, couldn’t be more pleased.
7 new plays, from the valuable annual drama workshop honoring the legacy of Cebuano poet, playwright and educator Cornelio Faigao
THE SM Seaside City that opened in Cebu last Thursday is a mall like no other, so it is understandable if the Cebuanos, as well as the retailers and suppliers who flew from Manila, celebrated its opening like a landmark event.
We’ve all heard that story about the expat who, after having visited the Philippines for the first time, simply decided not to leave. One such story is that of artist and sculptor, James Doran-Webb, British by birth but Cebuano by choice.
It was a holiday in Cebu City on Feb. 24 as the metropolis celebrated its 78th anniversary as a chartered city. The observance started with a Mass at 7:30 a.m. at the Plaza Sugbu fronting City Hall.
A DJ prodigy, a thoughtful chef and an artful traveler are just three of the Cebuanos you should be on the lookout for. With their passion for and dedication to their craft, they could be the next Cebuanos to achieve global success. Their stories:
Now that Rockwell has unveiled its high-end residential property in Cebu last Thursday, it should be interesting to see if the affluent but very cost-conscious Cebuano is finally ready to embrace condo living—stylish but condo space nonetheless. And—no less than in a spot that had been visited twice by Mother Teresa.
‘In a gentle way, you can shake the world,” Mahatma Gandhi once said. When a 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook Bohol and, to a thankfully much lesser degree, Cebu, last Oct. 15, several individuals as well as private and nongovernment organizations in the Queen City of the South proved Gandhi’s words true. They responded to the violent tremors with a gentle yet successful push to mobilize relief efforts for devastated Bohol—in effect making a difference, or “shaking the world,” as the venerable one would say.
First, a confession: “I didn’t set out with lofty ideas when this all began,” says producer Hendri Go, who started a longstanding foray into theater down south—that is, Cebu, Dumaguete, Bacolod, Iloilo, Ormoc and other places in the Visayas—with Little Boy Productions in 2001. “I just wanted to have fun.”
Maybe the last place you’d expect to find a Filipino would be in Medellín,” said American TV anchor Brian Andrews. He interviewed Cebuano furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue (accent on the second syllable) at the recent Colombia Moda, the most important fashion event in Latin America.
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